+ = x, by Chandler Groover nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (26 ratings) An equation is a language, which is a road to move information. All matter is information. Even a crust trimmed from a sandwich. Even a planet's crust, adrift in space, with its core blown. Those lights are... |
80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (100 ratings) 1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just eighty days. Choose your own route around a 3D globe, travelling by airship, submarine, mechanical camel,... |
9:05, by Adam Cadre nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (544 ratings) The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
Absence of Law, by mathbrush nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (52 ratings) Excuse me, can you help me? Yes, you, browsing IFDB games! I need your assistance, but I don't have long. There's so much going on: remote surveillance, unauthorized cloning, forgotten languages, robots... |
Academic Pursuits (As Opposed To Regular Pursuits), by ruqiyah nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (26 ratings) Dear Ms. ████████ We are delighted to offer you a position in our architecture department. After your application and interview we are confident you will really sink your teeth into this... |
According to Cain, by Jim Nelson nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings) Two brothers. One murder. And a mystery as old as mankind. You are a medieval investigator sent back in time to learn the secrets behind mankind's first murder. Using a novel alchemy system, observation, and... |
Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (136 ratings) "With the cantankerous Wizard of Wordplay evicted from his mansion, the worthless plot can now be redeveloped. The city regulations declare, however, that the rip-down job can't proceed until all the items... |
Adventurer's Consumer Guide, by Øyvind Thorsby nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (326 ratings) "Late Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing you need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is pretty empty and you're progressing rapidly. On to the next aisle... Aisle started out as a... |
Alias 'The Magpie', by J. J. Guest nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (74 ratings) Sir Rodney Playfair, gentleman thief, has a simple plan: impersonate a psychiatrist, infiltrate a country house, steal a priceless Egyptian scarab and make it back to London in time for cocktails. All in a... |
Amazing Quest, by Nick Montfort nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings) at last, you now need to get yourself and your fleet back home. Decide as if it all depends on you, trust as if it all depends on the gods, and you will have an amazing quest... |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (409 ratings) You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little... |
And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One, by B.J. Best nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (69 ratings) Title: Infinite Adventure Year: 1986 Genre: Adventure Summary: Wander through an apparently infinite number of spooky mansions, solving a basic puzzle in each one. ForgottenGames.com rating: ★ ★ ★ |
Andromeda Apocalypse — Extended Edition, by Marco Innocenti nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (29 ratings) Floating in space on a strange vessel, sole survivor of a world... and maybe of the entire human race, Ektor Mastiff must find a way through the cosmos, on a voyage that can change the history of mankind... |
Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut, by Marco Innocenti nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (43 ratings) The most important discovery in history. And then, the whole world goes crumbling down. Armed with but a computer and an expired railway ticket, how can one expect to save the day when the doomsday clock has... |
Andromeda Dreaming, by Joey Jones nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) Aliss can control her dreams, but will this help her when she's stuck in a galaxy on the brink of destruction? Winner of the Andromeda Legacy competition 2012, Andromeda Dreaming is in the same setting as... |
Ascension of Limbs, by AKheon nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings) You are an antique store proprietor trying to make ends meet. Use your wits, manage your resources, play the hand you are dealt. This game features a story with multiple endings, achievements as well as an... |
The Ascent of the Gothic Tower, by Ryan Veeder nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (34 ratings) A story of mild and non-debilitating obsession. |
Babyface, by Mark Sample nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (25 ratings) We are haunted by the houses of our childhood. How unfamiliar they are, when we return. Yet you never forget, do you? You never really forget. A Southern Gothic horror story. Remember, of all the masks we... |
Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (45 ratings) Spangleland! Sawdust and glitter, buffoons and cotton candy! It's a place where your wildest dreams come true! At least, that's what you think... until you get behind the scenes at the big top. Then you... |
The Bat, by Chandler Groover nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (25 ratings) Master Bryce is throwing a party. As his most faithful servant, that means it's your job to make the party run smoothly. But you only have two hands—and far too many duties. You'll have to manage requests... |
Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (173 ratings) Fourteen-year-old Bridget's summer camp experience takes a turn for the bizarre when her otherworldly bird dreams start bleeding into reality. |
Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (114 ratings) You have always been different. One in a trillion have your gift, your curse: to move between worlds, never settling, always alone. To Wayfare. Yet there are others like you, and something stronger than... |
Bogeyman, by Elizabeth Smyth nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (89 ratings) You can go home when you learn to be good. |
Boogle, by Buster Hudson nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings) |
Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!, by Steph Cherrywell nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (74 ratings) You are Bonnie Noodleman, Ordinary Well-Adjusted Teen-Ager, on an ordinary well-adjusted drive up Make-Out Mountain--until some gooey monstrosity from beyond the stars guzzles your boyfriend's brains clean... |
Bronze, by Emily Short nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (290 ratings) When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves. |
Circa Regna Tonat, by JS Choinski nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (5 ratings) A short journey through historical Tudor times. |
City of Secrets, by Emily Short nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (105 ratings) |
Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (116 ratings) Stolen away by apathetic Blind Ones, your only desire is to return to your Cellarium and the Song of the Universe. They should understand. You shall make them to understand. |
Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (253 ratings) Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. Since then, Atlantis... |
Cragne Manor, by Ryan Veeder, Jenni Polodna et al.Show other authorsAdam Whybray, Adri, Andrew Plotkin, Andy Holloway, Austin Auclair, Baldur Brückner, Ben Collins-Sussman, Bill Maya, Brian Rushton, Buster Hudson, Caleb Wilson, Carl Muckenhoupt, Chandler Groover, Chris Jones, Christopher Conley, Damon L. Wakes, Daniel Ravipinto, Daniel Stelzer, David Jose, David Petrocco, David Sturgis, Drew Mochak, Edward B, Emily Short, Erica Newman, Feneric, Finn Rosenløv, Gary Butterfield, Gavin Inglis, Greg Frost, Hanon Ondricek, Harkness Munt, Harrison Gerard, Ian Holmes, Ivan Roth, Jack Welch, Jacqueline Ashwell, James Eagle, Jason Dyer, Jason Lautzenheiser, Jason Love, Jeremy Freese, Joey Jones, Joshua Porch, Justin de Vesine, Justin Melvin, Katherine Morayati, Kenneth Pedersen, Lane Puetz, Llew Mason, Lucian Smith, Marco Innocenti, Marius Müller, Mark Britton, Mark Sample, Marshal Tenner Winter, Matt Schneider, Matt Weiner, Matthew Korson, Michael Fessler, Michael Gentry, Michael Hilborn, Michael Lin, Mike Spivey, Molly Ying, Monique Padelis, Naomi Hinchen, Nate Edwards, Petter Sjölund, Q Pheevr, Rachel Spitler, Reed Lockwood, Reina Adair, Riff Conner, Roberto Colnaghi, Rowan Lipkovits, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Scott Hammack, Sean M. Shore, Shin, Wade Clarke, Zach Hodgens, Zack Johnsonnosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (26 ratings) A tribute to Anchorhead. |
Cutthroats, by Michael Berlyn, Jerry Wolper nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings) You're about to get yourself into very deep trouble. You're a backwater island's top diver and foremost expert on local shipwrecks. Which makes you perfect for the job a band of the island's shadiest... |
CYBERQUEEN, by Porpentine nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (67 ratings) integration necessitates evisceration |
Damnatio Memoriae, by Emily Short nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings) 14 AD. Agrippa Postumus, grandson of the recently-deceased Augustus, tries to avoid death at the hands of the next emperor, Tiberius. At his disposal: a couple of old manuscripts, a lamp, and a recalcitrant... |
A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (99 ratings) No time for fantasy. Must feed fish. |
De lo que aconteció a Kanwa Tathimizu, by Ruber Eaglenest nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings) Una fábula sobrenatural para el día de los espíritus, inspirada por el Shodo y los Yōkai japoneses. Historia por Ruber Eaglenest. Kanjis, asesoramiento y edición por Mariela "Scullywen". Ilustración de... |
Deadline, by Marc Blank nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (60 ratings) Twelve hours to solve the mystery. One false move, and the killer strikes again. It's been called "part of the latest craze in home computing (TIME magazine), an "amazing feat of programming" (THE NEW YORK... |
Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) They all stare at you expectantly, like children waiting to be told a bedtime story. Who can blame them? You are, after all, Antoine Saint Germain, the great French detective. No criminal has ever been a... |
Deelzebub, by Morgan Elrod-Erickson, Skyler Grandel, Jan Kim nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (11 ratings) Reginald is your average former soap-sniffer: thirty-two, dumped, and unemployed. You are a voice inside his head. Summon demons, bake cookies, and decide the fate of the Hidden Hills Sanctuary. |
Detectiveland, by Robin Johnson nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (56 ratings) New Losago, 1929 - a town full of creeps, clowns, mobsters and, if you know where to look, the occasional honest citizen. Guide private investigator Lanson Rose through a series of puzzling cases: solve the... |
Digital: A Love Story, by Christine Love nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (25 ratings) A computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988. |
Dinner Bell, by Jenni Polodna nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) You are the involuntary and very hungry test subject of a semi-anthropomorphized dog in a labcoat who wants you to find all sixteen food items mentioned in They Might Be Giants' song Dinner Bell, which have... |
Domestic Elementalism, by fireisnormal nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (25 ratings) The plants that grow out of your bedroom walls are associated with Earth. The fairy lights strung across your kitchen are associated with Fire. Change an object's element, and the object will turn into... |
Dr Ludwig and the Devil, by SV Linwood nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings) Join esteemed mad scientist Dr Ludwig as he faces the greatest challenge of his nefarious career: making a deal with the Devil and coming out on top. ... |
Draculaland, by Robin Johnson nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) A terse, comic horror puzzle game based loosely on Dracula, faithfully reimagining several characters and ignoring most of the original plot. Guide Jonathan Harker on a trip through Transylvania, interacting... |
The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (177 ratings) The Dreamhold is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next. The Dreamhold is designed for people who have never... |
Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (110 ratings) This game takes place in a single room — but not always the same one. The room contains just one item, but again, there's more to it than that. Experiment and enjoy. |
Duck Diary, by Mathbrush nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) Your new rubber friend will help you get through this. |
Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (84 ratings) It's been almost a month since your parents disappeared. One Tuesday, they just didn't come home, and there's been no sign of them since. For the University and the rest of the town, the mystery is beginning... |
Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, by Paul O'Brian nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (55 ratings) |
Earth And Sky 3: Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (43 ratings) |
Eat Me, by Chandler Groover nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (109 ratings) In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts. |
Electric word, "life", by Lance Nathan nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (17 ratings) It's 1999, and your roommate has talked you into hosting a Halloween party. It's pretty much going to be all his friends, but you've invited a few of your own who may or may not make it. Here's hoping for... |
The Eleusinian Miseries, by Mike Russo nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (26 ratings) Well, isn't this a lark! After solid years of going after old Alky to let you in on that Mysteries wheeze of his, at last tonight's the night. He's dragged you from Athens to Eleusis for the to-do, but no... |
Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (110 ratings) In Enchanter, the first of a spellbinding series in the tradition of Zork, you are a novice magician whom Fate has chosen to do singlehanded combat with a dark and fierce power. But worldly weapons will... |
Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (56 ratings) The first time I ever saw someone play a text adventure was in fifth grade. One of the sixth-graders didn't go to outdoor ed, and therefore spent the week in my fifth-grade classroom, playing Scott Adams's... |
Erstwhile, by Aster (formally Maddie) Fialla, Marijke Perry nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (66 ratings) The neighborhood Thanksgiving party was going pretty well until you keeled over and died. Now you're a ghost, and you're going to figure out who killed you. But you can't exactly interview people or search... |
The Erudition Chamber, by Daniel Freas nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (26 ratings) |
Fallout: Vault 17, by Snoother nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) [I regret ever making this piece of juvenilia -- Snoother] |
Figaro, by Victor Gijsbers nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) A short example game created to accompany the essay "Co-Authorship and Community". It gives the player a kind of freedom that is not seen in any other interactive fiction: the freedom to determine what the... |
First Draft of the Revolution, by Emily Short, Liza Daly and inkle nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (56 ratings) It is dangerous to deceive a husband of magic-using rank... Juliette has been banished for the summer to a village above Grenoble: a few Alpine houses, a deep lake, blue sky, and no society. Now she writes... |
Flattened London, by Carter X Gwertzman nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) Unravel the secrets of the third dimension and search for treasure in a wholly bizarre setting — a crossover between the worlds of Fallen London and Flatland. Keep your wits about you in this sprawling... |
Floatpoint, by Emily Short nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (101 ratings) It is night on this side of the planet. Settled areas are lit: a jagged crescent in the tropics, lining the inland sea. The bright splatter along the top of the curve is Tanhua, as bright from space as New... |
Galatea, by Emily Short nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (346 ratings) Emily Short's description: A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally... |
Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (55 ratings) Missing employees, wily crustaceans, malfunctioning kitchen equipment and a terminal food shortage, all on the night the most important culinary critic in the world has chosen to review your debut... |
Grandma Bethlinda's Variety Box, by Arthur DiBianca nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (38 ratings) It's the latest model, and it would really like to play with you. |
The Grown-Up Detective Agency, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) The only thing Bell Park likes more than a mystery is solving it on her own. But when a time-traveling 12-year-old version of herself lands face-down on her rented co-working desk, she'll have no choice but... |
Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (69 ratings) Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to survive? |
Harmonia, by Liza Daly nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (76 ratings) Fuller, A. (b. 1966, d.?) 12 chapters, edited by E. Merchant. 091 Manuscripts—096 Illustrated—098 Prohibited works, forgeries, and hoaxes Signed permission from the Dean required for viewing. No... |
Her Majesty's Trolley Problem, by Buster Hudson nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (27 ratings) No one said life in Her Majesty's Service would be easy. Fortunately, you've got everything you need: your officer's handbook, a harpoon cannon, and the indefatigable command of Captain Lionetta herself. If... |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (188 ratings) Don't Panic! Relax, because everything you need to know about playing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is contained in the pages of this manual. In this story, you will be Arthur Dent, a rather ordinary... |
Hunger Daemon, by Sean M. Shore nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (65 ratings) It's not the end of the world, and you're to blame. Better get on that. But man, it sure would be nice to get a bite to eat first. |
IFDB Spelunking, by Joey Jones nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (21 ratings) In the depths of the interactive fiction database strange games lurk! This is an emulation of ten random works found on the IFDB, in which inventory carries over between games for unique effect. |
Illuminismo Iniziato, by Michael J. Coyne nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings) Lovingly handcrafted in Inform6, this overripe sequel to Risorgimento Represso is full of cheese, gunpowder, chemistry and explosions (well, only a little chemistry). Includes automap, sounds and graphical... |
The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (82 ratings) Housework is only as dull as your imagination. Join Emma, six years old, on a playful adventure of peculiar proportions. Merciful puzzlefest. Parser or point-and-click, as you please. Web (including mobile)... |
Indigo, by Emily Short nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (55 ratings) "Years ago, a witch placed you in this tower and arranged for your upkeep, paying certain villagers well to keep you supplied with the most basic necessities, and no more. Your years in the tower have... |
Infidel, by Michael Berlyn nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (62 ratings) Infidel finds you marooned by your followers in the heart of the deadly Egyptian Desert. A soldier of fortune by trade, you've come hither in search of a great lost pyramid and its untold riches. Now, alone,... |
Infinite Adventure, by B.J. Best (writing as “A. Scotts”) nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) The Abort/Retry/Fail team is proud to present the famously lost INFINITE ADVENTURE. This game is a visionary pioneer in procedural text generation, randomly generating rooms, maps, items, descriptions, and... |
Inside the Facility, by Arthur DiBianca nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (64 ratings) Your friend Mike thinks no one can infiltrate THE FACILITY, but you're going to prove him wrong. A light puzzle game. In the author's opinion, it's totally family-friendly. (If you're playing the Browser... |
It, by Emily Boegheim nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) "The rules of the game are easy. I'm It, so I go and hide. You and the others count to 50, then you have to look for me. If you find me, you have to get into the hiding spot with me. If you're the last... |
Junior Arithmancer, by Mike Spivey nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings) A one-to-many-room puzzler. |
Katana, by Matt Rohde nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) You play as an American tourist visiting Shinobu Palace in Japan hoping to learn more about your ancestor, Matsuo Kaneiji, an infamous samurai executed for treason. Through several puzzles and flashbacks,... |
The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (81 ratings) January 14th Dear friend. My sojourn in parts foreign is at an ende. I am at lodgings in Southwark not far from the bridge at Stoney Street, come dine with me two days hence to ring in the newe year. I have... |
Kotodama, by Aidan Doyle nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) A robot is sent to deal with an outbreak of poetry in Tokyo. |
Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (72 ratings) And now... the next exciting episode of humanoids in space! How did you, a regular at Joe's Bar in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, end up on a Martian moon? Can you prevent the hideous space creature from abducting... |
Limerick Quest, by Pace Smith nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) "To Russia!" you boldly suggest. "This riddle has got me obsessed. We'll search 'till we're blind, and loot what we find! Let's go on a... |
Little Girl In Monsterland, by Maurizio Colucci (as 'Mike Stallone') nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) Follow the adventures of two six-year-old girls with too much time on their hands as they go on a mission to defeat dangerous monsters, extremely competitive bodybuilders, and hyperinflation. |
Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
Locked Door, by Cody Gaisser nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) Can you... UNLOCK THE DOOR?! |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (500 ratings) Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
Lovely Assistant: Magical Girl, by Bitter Karella nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings) A magician's assistant has two very important duties, to point at things and to look good in a form-fitting evening gown. But when Mugwort the Magician is kidnapped by his devious riddle-obsessed... |
The Magpie Takes the Train, by Mathbrush nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (41 ratings) A millionaire guards a fabulous ruby in her private train car. Countless thieves have failed to steal it. But they weren't the Magpie! |
Map, by Ade McT nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (33 ratings) The house is growing. Or perhaps it's you who is shrinking. And with all this extra space is coming....time. Time enough, maybe, to make some changes. |
A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (118 ratings) "If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not..." --Shakespeare It's 2031. The world is on the brink of chaos. In the United States of North America, spiraling... |
Minor Arcana, by Jack Sanderson Thwaite nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) You have many faces. Your form is multiple. You are the cards. Created many years ago, infused with dark magic, you have seen many things. What secrets do you contain? What visions have you conjured up? How... |
The Moon wed Saturn, by Pseudavid nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (19 ratings) A simple, if peculiar, love story where not much seems to happen. The Moon wed Saturn is a short narrative experiment. Computer or tablet is recommended. |
Mother Tongue, by Nell Raban nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings) You're sitting at home, minding your business, when your mom texts you. It's a familiar situation. But when the chat turns nostalgic, how do you reconcile her regrets about how she raised you with your own... |
The Northnorth Passage., by Caleb Wilson (as Snowball Ice) nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (26 ratings) Oh no, the old family curse has flared up! This is a short story about limits to action. |
Open Sorcery, by Abigail Corfman nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (79 ratings) You are online. You are fire and order. You are here to protect. ---- "Open Sorcery" is a game about technology, magic and becoming a person. It follows the development of an Elemental Firewall--a creature... |
Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (68 ratings) You've practiced long and hard for PotionComp, but Grusilda won't give up her title so easily. UGH! Curse that Grusilda! A one-room potion-brewing spell-casting parser puzzler, where things might go opposite... |
Overboard!, by inkle nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) Overboard! is a whodunnit where you’re the one whodunnit. You have just eight hours to cover the evidence, mislead the witnesses, frame another suspect and escape ... if you can! The Story July, 1935.... |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (568 ratings) "Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together." |
The Place, by CynthiaP (as 'Ima') nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings) Although this is an interactive interface, your choices do NOT matter. They really do not. Before you quit, I want you to understand why. I am a believer of absurdity, that our actions in the end have no... |
Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (121 ratings) "Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near your home on the backwater planet of Gallium. Images of exotic... |
The Plant, by Michael J. Roberts nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (34 ratings) You're on a business trip with your boss, driving down a deserted highway in the middle of nowhere, when the car breaks down. You set off on foot seeking help, but you soon find yourself in the middle of a... |
Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (67 ratings) In the 17th century, the seas are as wild as the untamed heart of a young woman. But when you set out on the schooner Lafond Deux, bound for the West Indies, your thoughts are only of your ailing father who... |
Reference and Representation: An Approach to First-Order Semantics, by Ryan Veeder nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings) Violence is the answer to this one. |
Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings) You play as an Oxbridge student who, during a particularly boring lecture, falls through a green portal under their desk into the cluttered library of the wizard Ninario. Ninny was trying to summon a... |
A Rope of Chalk, by Ryan Veeder nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings) An account of the disastrous sidewalk chalk tournament of August 27, 2011. |
Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (56 ratings) Three hundred years ago, the Brazilian Space Agency discovered a rocky exoplanet only 38 light years from Earth. With a surface temperature of 1200 Celsius and nine times Earth gravity, it's hardly the sort... |
Sage Sanctum Scramble, by Arthur DiBianca nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings) A grab bag of puzzles, mostly word puzzles. Collect keywords and save the Sanctum! |
The Samurai and the Kappa, by Garry Francis nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (5 ratings) Ever since the Battle of Sekigahara and the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate, the samurai have gradually lost their military function to become courtiers, bureaucrats and administrators. This life was not for... |
Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (134 ratings) The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind... |
Seasonal Apocalypse Disorder, by Zan and Xavid nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) As cities around the world turn to ash, the Federal Bureau of Druids sends you back in time to the autumnal equinox to stop the Order of the Fiery Doom. Find plants for your mystical cocoon and travel to... |
Seastalker, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (29 ratings) There's something down there in the ocean, something terrifying. And you have to face it - because only you can save the Aquadome, the world's first undersea research station. The alarm sounds and your... |
Seedship, by John Ayliff nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (53 ratings) An AI ship full of frozen colonists must find the best planet to be the new home of the human race. |
Seven Bullets, by Cloud Buchholz nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings) You're a skilled assassin ready to retire, but before you can call it quits, the Boss kidnaps your little sister, and now you need to use your arsenal of deadly skills to get her back. Will you make the... |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Skulljhabit, by Porpentine nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (19 ratings) kind of like Dampe the gravedigger meets Harvest Moon meets Ligotti. |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (219 ratings) In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
So, You've Never Played a Text Adventure Before, Huh?, by Ryan Veeder nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings) Robin Monaghan and her friends explore a creepy house. |
Sohoek Ekalmoe, by Caleb Wilson nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (11 ratings) Written for the NarraScope 2020 Game Jam. This game is dedicated to all the weeds. |
Sorcerer, by Steve Meretzky nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (68 ratings) Sorcerer, the second of a spellbinding fantasy series in the tradition of Zork, takes you on a magical tour through the darker side of Zorkian enchantment. Your journey begins with a cryptic diary - the last... |
SOUND, by CynthiaP nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) You embark to find that voice You embark to find that voice You embark to find that voice You embark to find that voice You embark to find that voice |
The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (100 ratings) A new, experimental game that has no puzzles but uses only words that change your focus on things, thereby adapting the story. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Spellbreaker, by Dave Lebling nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (59 ratings) Spellbreaker, the riveting conclusion to the Enchanter trilogy, explores the mysterious underpinnings of the Zorkian universe. A world founded on sorcery suddenly finds its magic failing, and only you,... |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (318 ratings) A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without... |
Starcross, by Dave Lebling nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (51 ratings) Starcross, Infocom's science fiction mind-bender, launches you headlong into the year 2186 and the depths of space. And not without good reason, for you are destined to rendezvous with a gargantuan starship... |
Stoned Ape Hypothesis, by James Heaton nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (21 ratings) In the early 1990's, ethnobotanist Terence McKenna published his book "Food of the Gods" in which he presented a theory explaining the cognitive leap forward observed in early homo-sapiens. His theory is... |
Suspect, by Dave Lebling nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (25 ratings) You're guilty until proven innocent. You have walked into a hotbed of deceit and trickery. And now they're accusing you of something you couldn't have done. But they have proof that you did it. "You're a... |
Suspended, by Michael Berlyn nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (44 ratings) They said you would sleep for half a millennium - not an unreasonable length of time, considering you'd be in limited cryogenic suspension. Your body would rest at the planet's nerve center, an underground... |
Suveh Nux, by David Fisher nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (228 ratings) An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out. |
The Sweetest Honey, by Mauro Couto nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) Anima is an unsure man, terrified by the idea of dying. But one day discovers that he cannot die. Instead, he wakes up from the beginning of the day, as if nothing had happened. ¿Will be Anima able to... |
Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (118 ratings) Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
A Tale of the Cave, by Snoother nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (12 ratings) No longer are William McGonagall's ruinous effects confined to poetry. A Tale of the Cave is the unlikely marriage between Scotland's notoriously bad poet and the classic cave-crawl genre. Made for the Ruin... |
Tavern Crawler, by Josh Labelle nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (42 ratings) Most fantasy stories are about slaying the dragon. This one is about what happens after that. When you and your companions are approached by a man in a tavern who offers you more gold than you could spend in... |
Three-Card Trick, by Chandler Groover nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (69 ratings) You're going to perform a three-card trick or your name isn't Morgan the Magnificent. |
Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (120 ratings) A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
Trinity, by Brian Moriarty nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (104 ratings) You're neither an adventurer nor a professional thrill-seeker. You're simply an American tourist in London, enjoying a relaxing stroll through the famous Kensington Gardens. When World War III starts and the... |
Tuuli, by Daurmith and Ruber Eaglenest nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings) "The old witch, your teacher Mákke, is dead. If you want to save your village you'll have to destroy the raiding fleet that's coming. Can you do it, young Lenne-who-would-be-the-witch?" ---------- Mákke,... |
Under the Cognomen of Edgar Allan Poe, by Jim Nelson nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) A tale of literary ambition. "There are some secrets that do not permit themselves to be told." In 1849, Edgar Allan Poe disappeared among the back alleys of Baltimore. A week later, he was found delirious... |
Vampire Ltd, by Alex Harby nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (26 ratings) Nero Brashov, vampire and failed businessman, has revenge on his mind. He'll pose as a human, infiltrate his arch-enemy's corporation, and sabotage it from the inside. Just as soon as he's invited in, that... |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (389 ratings) Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
The Wand, by Arthur DiBianca nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (60 ratings) Explore the wizard Bartholloco's castle with the help of a versatile magic wand. Can you overcome his challenge? Can you levitate a rock? Can you slice a baltavakia? (Puzzle-oriented and family friendly.) |
What Fuwa Bansaku Found, by Chandler Groover nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (31 ratings) A samurai explores a haunted shrine. |
Will Not Let Me Go, by Stephen Granade nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (75 ratings) Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer's. |
Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (111 ratings) It's an ordinary day in your ordinary little town, and you've been performing your ordinary mail clerk's duties in an altogether ordinary way. But there's something quite extraordinary in today's mail. It's... |
The Witness, by Stu Galley nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) February 1938, Los Angeles. FDR's New Deal is finally rolling. Hitler's rolling, too; this time through Austria. But as Chief Detective for a quiet burgh on the outskirts of L.A., you've got other fish to... |
The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (138 ratings) You were recently acquired by the brave Ser Leonhart and his squire to sniff out the evil shapeshifting wizard. Unfortunately, you are not a wizard sniffer (if such a thing even exists). As far as you can... |
Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates, by Victor Gijsbers nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings) It's your last night together, for literal fuck's sake, but your husband is 'not in the mood'. Can you convince him to fulfil his marital duties? ... |
You Couldn't Have Done That, by Ann Hugo nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (27 ratings) Your first day on the job wasn't going to be pleasant. Such was inevitable. It's a big change. And, you are autistic. But this was a different story, far worse than unpleasant. |
You've Got a Stew Going!, by Ryan Veeder nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (37 ratings) Your friend has invited you over for stew. He has not bothered to procure most of the ingredients. |
Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (222 ratings) Many strange tales have been told of the fabulous treasure, exotic creatures, and diabolical puzzles in the Great Underground Empire. As an aspiring adventurer, you will undoubtedly want to locate these... |
Zork II, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (100 ratings) The Wizard appears, floating nonchalantly in the air beside you. He grins sideways at you. The Wizard incants "Fantasize," but nothing happens. He shakes his wand. Nothing happens. With a slightly... |
Zork III, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (79 ratings) An old, oddly youthful man turns toward you slowly. His long, silver hair dances about him as a fresh breeze blows. "You have reached the final test, my friend! You are proved clever and powerful, but this... |
Zozzled, by Steph Cherrywell nosferatu's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings) Hotsy-totsy! It's 1928 and you're madcap flapper Hazel Greene, tottering around the city's finest hotel with a gullet full of giggle juice...until a gaggle of ghosts shows up to spoil the fun by turning... |